Seriously, do people never learn??

A radio show up north in Sacramento held a seemingly harmless contest, "Hold your Wee for a Wii" where contestants were brought into the studio and asked to drink 8 oz of water every 15 minutes, testing contestants to drink as much water as they could without going to the bathroom.

Uhm, did we all not hear about the college frat boy who died from water intoxication? So this woman (who did not win the Wii, btw) went home and experienced bad headaches before she was found dead that evening by her daughter. Seriously, not one person at that radio station cared to research this a bit before they went on with the contest? No one bothered to consult a physician?

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Full House

Vina's baaaack. She went up to San Francisco for 2 weeks. And she came back with a bag of Ghiradelli chocolates. We are so dead. The snacker is back. Plus my mom is staying with us and she cooks us breakfast lunch and dinner. Which is GREAT but not good for us. She was good the first couple of days... I asked her to stick to fish and veggies. But slowly she started slipping in some white rice with the brown rice in the cooker... and sautee-ing instead of steaming... and tonight she totally broke our agreement and made a pork dish. BAD!

Anyhow, along with chocolates Vina also brought this home:

It's a quaint little Japanese (or Chinese, since she bought it in Chinatown?) village-type model home with running water on the well. As the water runs the well moves up and down and makes a "tap, tap" sound. It was pleasant at first, kind of therapeutic. It actually serves as a great metronome for our nightly set of crunches and sit-ups.

But right now I'm in my room trying to watch the first part of the 4-hour Season Premiere of 24 and I have to replay each scene because I can't hear over the stupid "tap, tap"... someone shoot me! Auuuggghhh!

This is the first time I'm going to be watching 24 on TV. I watched all the other seasons either on DVD or iPod (hooked up to the TV of course, can't wait for TV!) and I was dreading the day I caught up to the current season and I'd be forced to watch it one episode per week. I was going to avoid it altogether and buy the season on iTunes halfway through the season so I could watch it on my own time but how can you resist a 4-hour premiere? :)

Okay, back to 24~

P.S. Saw a 24-hr Fitness commercial with a clever tagline just now... "No one ever says 'I wish I hadn't gone to the gym today.'"

VINA!!!

I do not appreciate you using Tooba the Scooba as a MAT for your retarded BACKPACK!

The Big Chill

I'll admit, I was a little promiscuous about my frozen yogurt the last couple of weeks. I tried out the plain-tart frozen yogurt at The Big Chill on Olympic on my way home from the gym. TBC has always been a popular frozen yogurt spot, even before pinkberry came into the picture. I got the plain+granola. Pretty interesting. The frozen yogurt was not as tart and fruity tasting as pinkberry and fiore. It had the initial tartness of yogurt, the airy lightness of coolwhip yet the richness of cream cheese. Really!

Also, they had 3 types of granola. Their fat free variety is just like the one @ pinkberry, which is basically plain rolled oats I think. Their "regular" granola was a mixture of oats, sunflower seeds, chocolate chips, raisins and coconut shavings. It was really good, very crispy texture.

I also tried out Barenaked Yogurt, the little stand by Coral Tree Express in Century City Mall. I think when it comes to these premium frozen yogurts this is probably the cheapest option. Their "small" is bigger than a pinkberry medium, and for $3.95 you get a choice of two toppings. Pretty darn good deal.

Anyhow, you must think I'm pretty obsessed with frozen yogurt. Well, it's not just me. I kid you not, as I'm writing this post my mom is sitting on the couch and just asked "You know what would be good right now? That ice cream place with the fruit, what's it called?"

Productivity

It still amazes me how much you can get done in Cerritos just because everything is so much closer together and there is less traffic. Yesterday by 2:30pm Joanna and I went to church in Anaheim, had lunch with my mom @ Macaroni Grill, went to Trader Joe's, had tea at Starbucks by the mall and filled up my gas tank. I mean, if we were to do that in West LA it would take us the entire day!